“There are indeed techniques like that. I’ve heard of them before. They should be spiritual techniques that directly attack the sea of consciousness. They leave no external injuries, but they shatter a person’s memories, which can take a very long time to repair. Some memories may never be restored.”
Shi Fumeng explained, “Now that my memories have returned and I remember the attack I suffered, I feel that my mind wasn’t struck by any spiritual technique.”
“Then what happened?”
Xu Mu asked.
“Yeah, what happened?”
Ying Weiyang, sitting in the back seat, leaned forward as well. “I lost my memory too. It feels like what happened to you.”
Shi Fumeng glanced back at Ying Weiyang and continued, “There’s another possibility. The expert who did this may have surpassed the ninth rank.”
“What?”
Xu Mu’s expression immediately turned solemn. “Surpassed the ninth rank? You mean a legendary immortal?”
“Exactly. When I was little, the elders of my clan told me that there are realms above the ninth rank, known as Earth Vein and Celestial Phenomenon. Of course, there are also more vulgar names for them—Earth Immortal and Heavenly Immortal.”
Shi Fumeng explained, “Once someone reaches the Earth Vein realm, they can seal all of a person’s life meridians, including their memories and power.”
“They can even seal someone’s power?”
Xu Mu furrowed his brow slightly. He suddenly remembered something Xu Shou had told him.
Xu Shou had said that they had once found a top-level expert to seal half of Xu Mu’s power—the power of the Great Wilderness Clan.
“That’s right. They can seal it. As long as the other person’s realm is lower than theirs, they can seal them completely.”
Shi Fumeng explained, “The body won’t have any injuries at all. It will be as if the person had been born a cripple.”
“Could the other party really be an immortal?”
Xu Mu smiled at Shi Fumeng.
“I can’t be bothered with it anymore. In any case, I’m never going back to that ruin. And as for the Artifact Sect, once I have enough strength, I’ll definitely go there for revenge! They’re completely inhuman!”
Shi Fumeng folded her arms and snorted coldly.
Everything had been fine before. They had broken through the formation over there, while Shi Fumeng and the others followed behind. The people from the Artifact Sect had never told them to leave.
But after entering the depths, they had suddenly turned on her and refused to let them follow. If they didn’t want her there, why hadn’t they said so from the beginning?
After being trapped for so many days, Shi Fumeng had wanted to leave for a long time.
She had never expected them to launch a sneak attack from behind after they reached the depths. If she hadn’t possessed a divine-grade technique, she definitely wouldn’t have survived.
Xu Mu said nothing. The Artifact Sect was a major sect, and it was indeed rather interesting.
He remembered that Hat Guy’s wife was a member of the Artifact Sect.
He had also previously encountered a councilor from the Sanitation Office named Geng Yanlin, whose character label was “villain.” He was an elder of the Artifact Sect as well.
Now, someone from that sect had suddenly attacked Shi Fumeng. Xu Mu had no idea what their reason was.
For now, however, Xu Mu certainly wouldn’t go looking for trouble with them. The most important thing to him was still improving his own strength.
……
Xu Mu brought the two women to an empty country road. After using his perception to confirm that no one was nearby, he put the car away and took them back to Jiang City by helicopter.
The moment they jumped out of the helicopter after returning home, Xu Mu’s expression turned solemn.
“What’s wrong?”
Shi Fumeng noticed that something was off with Xu Mu’s expression and asked.
“Two experts suddenly appeared in our villa complex. There’s a very good chance they’re here for me.”
Xu Mu’s voice was cold as he put the helicopter into his storage space.
He activated his perception and observed the two middle-aged men chatting beside the fitness equipment.
After seeing the helicopter, the two men indeed began walking toward Xu Mu’s villa.
Xu Mu told Shi Fumeng and Ying Weiyang to return to the living room first. He then stood behind the villa’s main gate and quietly waited.
Through his perception, Xu Mu watched until the two men entered a certain range. He then activated Concealment Barrier and took the initiative to move to the gate.
Through the gaps in the metal gate, he observed the two men before him.
The leader had a crew cut, with a black tattoo behind his ear. His cultivation had already reached the Transcendent realm.
The other man was more muscular, but his cultivation was only at the late Grandmaster stage.
Xu Mu used God’s Eye to inspect the leader.
Name: Liu Gu
Identity: Member of Painted Skin
Favorability: -3
Destiny Level: 2 (Maximum Level: 10)
Xu Mu frowned deeply. Members of Painted Skin? Where had this organization come from?
He had never provoked these people.
But after thinking about it carefully, he realized that he had indeed made quite a few enemies recently.
For example, Zidian of the Blackmoon Clan, Shui Shu, and Yue Menglong, who possessed eternal life.
Of course, if Hat Guy’s wife had told Xiao Gui that Xu Mu had saved her, then Xiao Gui would certainly hate him as well.
Xu Mu felt somewhat helpless. The enemies on his side were becoming increasingly powerful. No matter how many pills he used to strengthen the people around him, he couldn’t keep up with them.
He even suspected that this ninth-rank illusion formation might not be able to stop these enemies.
But before worrying about that, he had to deal with these two men first.
Xu Mu lightly leaped over the gate and landed in front of the two men.
He took out a spray bottle from the Eternal Life Research Institute and sprayed both of them twice.
The two men immediately looked around. Something producing that much water couldn’t possibly have come from an insect in a tree.
Yet they couldn’t see who had sprayed them.
“Are you looking to die?”
Xu Mu’s voice suddenly rang out beside their ears.
The two men were instantly overcome with terror and ran toward the distance.
But after taking only a few steps, they felt the world spinning around them. With two thuds, they collapsed to the ground.
They tried to release their qi force, but every time they did, it felt as though their bodies were being struck by high-voltage electricity. The pain was unbearable, and they were completely unable to summon any strength.
“Are you all right?”
After the effects wore off, Xu Mu helped the two men up and dragged them to sit on a bench nearby.
When the two men saw Xu Mu, their eyes widened.
Xu Mu sat between them, draping an arm around each of their backs. “What brings you two here?”
“We… were just passing by.”
Liu Gu’s voice trembled slightly.
“Passing by? A dignified Transcendent expert—did you take a liking to one of the houses in our villa complex?”
Xu Mu’s voice gradually grew colder. “To be honest, I’m a fairly gentle person. Answer me truthfully, and I’ll let you go. Otherwise, I’ll treat you according to the methods of Painted Skin.”
The two men stared at him in disbelief. How did this man know they were from Painted Skin?
“Wondering how I know?”
Xu Mu smiled and explained, “The intelligence department behind me is beyond your imagination. The moment you entered this neighborhood, your photographs had already been taken.”
“Big brother, please don’t kill us.”
Liu Gu was completely terrified. The people above had said this was just a simple mission. All they had to do was identify which family members and friends Xu Mu had around him and send over their photographs.
Who could have expected Xu Mu to be absurdly powerful? And, crucially, to have such an enormous intelligence network behind him?
Most of their previous missions had taken place overseas, and they had rarely exposed their identities. They had never expected Xu Mu to see through them at a glance.
“Then talk. If you dare lie to me, you know what will happen.”
Xu Mu’s voice was icy.
“It was the Thousand-Skinned Woman. That esteemed one ordered us to investigate you.”
Liu Gu was trembling all over. “She’s the one behind our skin-painting operation.”
u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
